Crowning machine



July 3, 1923.

F. J. FALLADA cRowNING MACHINE Filed Aug. 21. 1922 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 T T.. Nm, I

F. J. FALLADA CROWNING MACHINE Filed Aug. 2l

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July 3, 1923.

cRowNNG MACHINE Filed Aug. 2l. 1922 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 :ao Y suiting the preference ofthe user.

Patented July 3, 1923.

,ss-L FRANK 'Jorrit rALLADA, or emerso, ILLINOIS.k

caowNInG MACHINE.

Appneatio'n mea August 21, 1922. sria'i N'o. 583,169.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, FRANK JOHN FALrnDA, a citizen of the United States, a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State4 of Illinois, with a po'st-oiiceaddress aty 1523 S.

Ames Ave., have invented a new and useful Improvement iny a lCrowning Machine, of which :the following is 'a specification.

My invention relates to tilling the soil, and the `object of`..sthez"inventin is to proiduce a more lefficient .machine Aor' the vrotary disk and -rotaryfcutterY type, adapted to ybe used onfsod ground.= y

Reference will behad to the accompanying drawings inwhich'- f i Figure '.1 tis a plan view of the entire machine. 1

Figure -2 is la :side elevation.

Figure 8 is a transverse section on line of Figure 2, but,` showing sonrie modifications in the mechanism.. i

Figure 4 is an enlarged elevational view of the rotary cutter showing also some modications. L f l 'The machine is intended to be drawn by any suitable source of power, such as horses `or a tractorv attached to the front of the machine whichjis the xleft side of the drawings in Figures 1 and 2, and the said attach- .ment may7 be made -in any suitable manner `wheels are adaptedto furnish power vand drive the reara-Xle 6 as a `liveaXle under Ythe tractive eort'of the power for moving Y the machine.

' Mounted across the trontr'ofthe machine there isan axle 7, carrying a series of rotar-y disks Sinthe mannero-f a` disk harrowand .this axle `7, is carried in'` jour-nal bjoxes `9, sliding in `slots 1Q, .in a supportingbrac'ket 11, iixed.. to the frame 1, and links, 12fare connectedto bell crank arms 13,on a shaft 14 Iwhich is connected `by links 15 toa secondaryshaft 16 through the mediulm'otl some arms 119and the shaft 16 isconnected to an .operating lever 17 in reach of the operator perchedonth'e seat 18.

. Inv ltherear of; the rolling- .colters or disks,

8, there is mounted ahorizontal shaft 20,'

provided with radial larms V.21, carrying volved and cut up the sod or earthy as desired.

The shaft 221g drivenlby a Sprocket when l23, under the iniuence of the chain 24 "on a VVSuitable engaging and disengaging means is 'spiral cutter blades 22, adapted to be re- .i

provided 'for the 'loose Iclutchtblock `27 f lthe dental clutch 26, and it is 'here shown 4in part as being Ycomposed of a. spring 28 adaptedl to normally hold the m'vab'le'clutch 'block 27 in place and `"v 'vith ylever means 'indic'ated 'by 29 for retractingthe spring and loosening theclutch.A Details of thisfley'er means are not shown. Aflor B0 'is ,provided for the 'convenience 'of the driver-and to 4protect himv from ace'i'c'lent in connection wlththe rotary cutter blades 22;

:on the sha1-ft 20` there is provided une .wheel'SLon the near'side, and 32on'tl`1'eo' side. 4These wheels are:il'itended to limit the depthA into which the rotarycutter .blades may cnt 4into the soil, and they.l amount only .sired regardless 'of howthe machine *fnay ride vover the ground supported by its regu- .lar supporting wheels `2 and, 4, so' thatthe unevennes's of the ground may be accommodated by the wheels 31and32.

. In Figures 1 and 2 the, wheel 31fis smaller than the wheel 32-,the wheel 31.1rides on the toa 'depth gage lfor the cutter, it being theland side and 32'on the c ut orsoft side which allows it to settle down more deeply than the wheel 31 and thus accommodate ffr cut- .ting operations and also to accommodate for .hillside cutting. l.

f A modified form/is Shown in-rigreafor l Avthe arrangement fofthesil'pporting shaft 20 for -the spiralcutters .22,v these supporting wheels for the shaft A20 are indicatedby 33,

and are the samesize Ibutthey areconn'ected` independently ,ofeach-other as will bebetter understood from the. view.u shown in Figure wherein the wheeljs` have independent studs 34C for axles, and. thesestuds ,are 'fixed in. thefa'djustable plates' 35 secu-red byiadjusting: bolts 36 to a secondaryA plate underi rtion of the revolving cutters neath the plate 35, and not shown,which is connected to the block 37 which is a duplicate of the block 38 shown in Figure 2, that carries the shaft 20.

The blocks 38 and 37 which carry the shaft 20 are guided and supported in a slot 29 of the bracket Ll() connected to the frame of the machine and the said blocks 37 and 33 are controlled in the movement up and down the slot 39 by links 4l connected to arms i2 mounted on the before mentioned shaft 16 under control of the operating lever 17 before mentioned. The point being that with one operating lever 17, the rotary spiral cutters 22 and the disk harrow disks 8 are simultaneously lowered or raised by the operator as desired in the control of the machine.

The lever 17 is held downward whenV desired by locking lever 43 when the machine is out of service and in transit, thus holding the cutters and disks free from the ground.

Thile this machine may be used for any agricultural purpose for which it is found desirable, the special purpose of this machine is to crown the soil as it were, that is to cut oft' the top surface of the soil.

Certain crops, alfalfa for instance, is hard to kill oft when another crop is intended to be substituted on the same land, and this machine is especially desirable for cutting *off the top sod, serving to kill the alfalfa in a better way than any other type of machine. There are various other agricultural purposes for which only the top is intended to be shaved off, for ywhich this machine is especially adapted.

What I claim is 1. In a machine of the class described, a frame mounted on supporting wheels, one set of which are geared to furnish power for revolving a rotary cutter through tractive effort, a spiral rotary cutter mounted to be revolved and driven by a traction wheel of the machine and supportedin its relationship to the ground by wheels rolling on the ground and .connected to lioat upward and downward and carry rotary cutters with them over the uneven surfaces of the ground in combination with some disk cutters placed forward of the rotary cutters and adapted to slit the yground by the movement of the machine in advance of the rotary cutters and said rotary cutters provided with means for adjusting the depth onv either yend thereof `more or less as relates to the transverse posi- 2. 'In' a. device of the class described, a

' machine adapted to `ride on its oWn Supportiingwheels and to carry a floating adjustable frame, a series of rotary spiral cutter blades i and gearing connected to traction wheels of .the machine adapted to drive the said cutter blades in combination with some rolling cutters mounted in advance kof the spiral cut:-

ters and adapted to slit-the ground in advance of the cutters as the machine is moved over the ground and means for adjusting both sets of cutters upward or downward in relation to the ground.

3. In a device of the class described, a frame work supported on carrying and traction wheelsand adapted to be drawn over the ground by tractive elfo-rt from some suitable source of power, a shaft mounted transversely on the machine inadjustable guide ways adapted to be raised and lowered in relation to the frame of the machine and connected by suitable gearing to be revolved by rot-ation of the t-raction wheels of the machine; supporting wheels for each end of the said shaft adapted to be adjusted in varying heights in relation to each end of the cutter blades mountedI on the said shaft and said cutter blades adapted to cut the soil as the shaft is revolved at a speed greater than the travel of the machine.

4. In a device of the class described, a frame supported upon carrying and traction wheels and having mounted across the front portion thereof a shaft carrying disk cutters adapted to be adjusted in and outofthe ground in relation to the machine, and cut vlongitudinal slits in the ground aS themachine is drawn over-the ground, a rotary cutter having transverse cutter blades adapted to be revolved and cut the soil transversely of the travel of the machine and located in the rear of the said rotary disks, gearing connected to positively drive said transverse rotary cutter from traction wheels of the machine and supporting wheels adapted to adjust the transverse rotary cutter in 'relation to the ground independently of the frame work of the machine, as relates to the height of the frame on the ground as supported by its carrying and traction wheels.

5. In a device ofthe class described, a framework supported on front supporting wheels and rolling tractor wheels, a transverse shaft extending across the frame and behind the front supporting wheels and carrying a series of rotary cutter disks adapted to slit the ground as the machine is moved over the same, a transverse rotary cutter adapted to be revolved through gearing connected to the traction wheels and located across the machine in the rear of the said rotary disks and in frontof the traction wheels in combination with some supporting wheels for the transverse rotary cutter adapted to carry the said cutter and supporting 'same independently of the supporting and traction wheels of the machine.

6. In a device of the class described, a transverse rotary spiral cutter mounted across the frame work of the machine and adapted to float upward and downward in relation to the ground under the influence of supporting Wheels adapted tocarry only the transverse spiral cutter and its mountings, supporting wheels for the said rotary cutter mounted as described andadapted to be adjusted upward or downward through:-

link and lever mechanisms in reach ,of the operator riding upon the machine.

7.111'3, device ofthe class described, a

transverse gcutter'mo-unted across the path of the travel of the machine provided with wheels adapted to roll on the ground and support the said cutter as relates to depth, one of said wheels'adapted to support onev end of the cutter higher than the other;

8. In a device of the class described', a frame supported on traction wheels, aV shaft gust, 1922.V f 1 extending acrossftheffra'melland carrying a.y 'f series of revolving longitudinalslitting co1. i, ters anda shaft carrying som'etransverse f revolving cutter blades,V in 'combination' with '5 link and [lever connections whereby the voperator may raise and lower 'both sets vof cut`V :ters simultaneously. f p I y,

Signed at'Chcagdin-thecounty ofCook y y j FRANK JOHN vFQiIVJLfA'DA. j 

